Author’s Point of View

    Major Points of View Perhaps the most difficult lesson I have learned about the academic community is that it is necessary to identify the point of view of the person providing information about paranormal concepts. It is a matter of knowing if you can trust your teacher. Here are the basic points of … Read more

Wikipedia Arbitration

Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Wikipedia content is policed with a hierarchy of editors within the bounds of editing rules. Disagreements among the editors can be brought to administrators and may eventually become arbitration cases. Particularly contentious relationships between editors may result in discipline and/or warnings … Read more

Elephant-Paranormal

Opinion 7 Abstract Time and again, I have encountered people who say that an instance of claimed paranormal phenomena is fake. Practitioners are rarely given an opportunity to explain their work, and the skeptics virtually never explain how they think it is possible to fake the work. With no discussion of alternative theories, there can … Read more

Paranormalist Community

The Paranormalist Community Think of a community as a collection of people who share an interest in one or more ideas. If you have more than a passing interest in the ideas related to the paranormal, then you are automatically a member of what I refer to as the Paranormalist Community. For sure, skeptics have … Read more

Consensus Building in the Paranormalist Community

Abstract A community of people cooperating to achieve a common goal is the building block of civilization. From a metaphysical perspective, discussions amongst members of a cooperative community enable them to compose coherent statements of understanding and receive candid feedback. Composing thoughts to express an idea, either to tell or to respond, provides important opportunities … Read more